The Thirty-first Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:
(a) the Implementing Agencies should seek information from governments and/or national ozone units on the status of all the recovery and recycling projects they have implemented so as to ascertain whether they are in operation. The reports should be based on a standardized format for data collection, both at the individual equipment user level and as summarized information at the project level. This format should be developed by the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in consultation with the Implementing Agencies and interested national ozone units, and should be presented to the Executive Committee at its 32nd meeting;
(b) an evaluation of recovery and recycling projects should be undertaken, particularly for those projects implemented as a component of a refrigerant management plan, as soon as they had been monitored for a reasonable period and data had been collected by the national ozone units and the Implementing Agencies and forwarded to the Multilateral Fund Secretariat. Depending on the information received from the national ozone units and the Implementing Agencies, as well as that contained in the project completion reports, the evaluation could be undertaken under the 2001 or 2002 work programme for monitoring and evaluation. The terms of reference for the evaluation would be presented to the Executive Committee for consideration. The draft terms of reference would take account of comments made by members of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance at its 11th meeting;
(c) the national ozone units together with the Implementing Agencies should also be requested to obtain costing data for recovery and recycling which should include the operating cost of equipment, to arrive at the cost of recovery and recycling, as well as the price trends in refrigerants. The data would permit the conditions for economically viable recycling and recovery operations to be determined, and they should be made available to the Implementing Agency, with a copy to the Multilateral Fund Secretariat.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/61, Decision 31/15, para. 34).
(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/31/18).
The Thirty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided to request the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to review the objectives of the evaluation exercise with a view to improving the exercise and lightening the burden on respondents. That did not imply that the same procedures would apply to all recovery and recycling projects in the future.
(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/32/44, Decision 32/16, para. 27).